soxprospects: "Clay Buchholz has the flu and its possible he could miss his start tommorow. The FO scratched David Pauley from his Pawtucket start today in case he has to start tommorrow in Buchholz's place."

I went out to Dunkin' Donuts for some breakfast for baseball, and there were two major roads in my immediate area closed for one reason or another. So, all of the traffic was diverted to this small residential street. Ugh.

I haven't heard anything about whether Clay is being scratched or not.

He'll be pitching.

Random AccuWeather girl: "There's a slight wind toward left field that will help Manny Ramirez hit the ball over the Green Monster."

Yeah I hear they're season 7 extras. But I saw them on some aol story. And they didn't tell me what it was from. So I was like, "how did I possibly miss these scenes?!!" And then I looked it up and found out they were scenes that were cut due to the storyline changing.

When I was (cough) in New York, I used to go any weekday day game I could, just go up to the Stadium and get a ticket that day, often by myself. It was one of great pleasures in life - I'm glad I did while I had the chance.

"I want him as a starter and so does everyone else, including him, and that is what we are working toward and we need him there now," Steinbrenner told the New York Times. "There is no question about it, you don't have a guy with a 100-mile-per-hour fastball and keep him as a setup guy. You just don't do that. You have to be an idiot to do that."

"I want him as a starter and so does everyone else, including him, and that is what we are working toward and we need him there now," Steinbrenner told the New York Times. "There is no question about it, you don't have a guy with a 100-mile-per-hour fastball and keep him as a setup guy. You just don't do that. You have to be an idiot to do that."

I'm glad those scenes got cut because, even from just a sit-com perspective, like, if you didn't know George from real life, you don't show the face of a character who had been hidden. It would be like if Vera just walked into Cheers one day.

I know better than to talk politics here, but think about it: legendary iron-fisted ruler, aging and infirm, leaving the job up to younger members of his family who are supposedly ruling "in his name," and drawing a full measure of scorn from all ... um ... competitors?

I don't know about Macha .. I'm out at a coffeeshop with the closed captions on, so I don't know who said what. Also, a little while ago the titles were talking about the first "inninging," so they're not entirely reliable.

So Daniel, if you know better than to talk politics here, then maybe don't.

Wow, harsh. I didn't mean to be expressing any political opinion about anyone (Castro or Steinbrenner), just that I was amused by the similarities in their recent histories. In my book, that doesn't rate as "talking politics."

Bruins guy says he was a Tigers fan, but now that they've fallen off the rails (???), he's following the defending champs. Now that's a real fan. Presumably he wants Bruins fans to be a bit more loyal.

Bruins guy says he was a Tigers fan, but now that they've fallen off the rails (???), he's following the defending champs. Now that's a real fan. Presumably he wants Bruins fans to be a bit more loyal.

That day after they went down 3-1, my favorite "worst radio station of all time" and yours, WEEI, had an opening to a show which consisted of mocking the Bruins repeatedly, proclaiming their season done, complete with fan comments joking about how shitty the team is, etc.

At that moment, I was like, I hope this team wins this series and stuffs it in their faces, and all the people who called in mocking them are banned from ever getting tickets again aren't allowed to celebrate when they win.

I mean, come on, how many times does the town of Boston have to see one of their teams make a miraculous comeback before people start to believe that teams shouldn't be counted out til it's really over?

It was a good idea for him to try for home when they had Pedroia in the run-down, I think. But he stopped again. Maybe he could have made it. Maybe not. Either way, someone was going to be tagged out unless Ellsbury scored.

It's funny how yesterday, Remy made fun of Don for not having a suit ready a day in advance like Remy does. And then Remy himself doesn't show the next day. So now does he prep tomorrow's suit today, or just move today's to tomorrow?

I shall be bidding you all a fond farewell in ten minutes, for the commute through London's fair south eastern suburbs. Through Greenwich and Lewisham, the Green that is Hither to the Park of the Grove.....

Another run scoring would mean my parting would be such sweet sorrow...